Cremation offers an affordable alternative to traditional funerary services. Cremation costs much less than a traditional funeral service and burial. For example, a traditional funeral and burial service can cost in excess of $7,000 at a minimum, while many crematoriums offer cremation and a container for the ashes for around $1,200. In light of changing social values with respect to funeral services, cremation also offers a modern alternative to long, drawn out burial services that often take a heavy emotional toll on the loved ones of the deceased. Over the past three decades, cremations have risen in number in the U.S. According to one report, the rate of cremations "has jumped from 5% of deaths nationwide in the early 1970s to more than 25 percent today" Nevertheless, cremation is literally a process whereby the remains of the deceased are burned and then any remaining bones are pulverized into ash. However, recent front-page headlines in Georgia and abuses at crematoriums and funeral homes that have them across the nation show that when it comes to cremation it is often the consumer who gets burned.

During the cremation process, once the cremator has reached optimum temperature (760 to 1150 °C (1400 to 2100 °F), the body is placed in a chamber called the retort. During this same process, the body organs and other soft tissue are vaporized and oxidized due to the heat, and the gases are discharged through the exhaust system. The entire process usually takes about two hours. In some funerals, relatives are allow to see the process of cremation. You have many memorialization options to consider for your loved one, before and/or after the cremation takes place. It is most important to create an event that not only allows family and friends to say good by, but also is meaningful and satisfying to all.

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I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A. INTRODUCTION
Cremation has been constantly gaining acceptance here in the Philippines especially in areas where there are crematoriums such as Manila, Quezon City, Paranaque, and other leading cities in the Philippines. Although inhumation or traditional burial is still largely practiced in the Philippines, many Filipinos are now welcoming the cremation for variety of reasons such as, practicality and affordability, simple, cleanest process and speeds up natural process.
The demands for cremations is now at its peak especially when the Catholic Church permitted the cremation as a legitimate mode of disposing the dead body, and it was justified the existence of crematoriums such as The Loyola Memorial Park, Manila Memorial Park, The Heritage Park, La Funeraria Paz and Holy Trinity Funeral Service.
The Holy Gardens Chapel Inc. offer cremations but they are tie up to Loyola and it was costly on the part of the Chapel especially when the package is prepaid that the latter can’t increase the price when the former increase their prices. Since the Chapel offer cremation and almost all the funeral service in Rizal, putting a crematorium become the goal of the company.
In Rizal, there is no crematorium as of present time and the Holy Gardens Crematorium will be the first ever. Opportunities are now knocking at the door if all the funeral...

...﻿There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows.
Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows.
He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell;
Though he'd often say in his homely way that "he'd sooner live in hell."
On a Christmas Day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail.
Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail.
If our eyes we'd close, then the lashes froze till sometimes we couldn't see;
It wasn't much fun, but the only one to whimper was Sam McGee.
And that very night, as we lay packed tight in our robes beneath the snow,
And the dogs were fed, and the stars o'erhead were dancing heel and toe,
He turned to me, and "Cap," says he, "I'll cash in this trip, I guess;
And if I do, I'm asking that you won't refuse my last request."
Well, he seemed so low that I couldn't say no; then he says with a sort of moan:
"It's the cursèd cold, and it's got right hold till I'm chilled clean through to the bone.
Yet 'tain't being dead—it's my awful dread of the icy grave that pains;
So I want you to swear that, foul or...

...characters from two different poems in this unit. In your response, describe the characters, the situations they face, and the things that they do. Then explain how they are similar in terms of traits and in the way readers feel about them. Write at least ten sentences
Answer:
Amongst the limerick poem of “The Listeners” and “The Cremation of Sam McGee,” there are astounding characters that depict unusual traits which make them unique. Like the traveler who vowed to keep a promise, he was perceptively aware of the spooky tower which encompassed all round him. Though he showed no fear or remorse of ever being attacked by a phantom as he knocked on the door! This character trait shows bravery and despite the fact that the humongous tower was insidiously occupied by apparition and haunted by ghostly whispers, the traveler would knock once more! When not an utter of sound was emitted, the traveler would speak, “Tell them! That I kept my promise!”
Likewise, a character of “The Cremation of Sam McGee” poses a rather similar character trait as well. Comparable to the traveler who stopped at nothing from keeping his promise, the speaker of “The Cremation of Sam McGee” is left alone, and he knows he has made a promise that he must keep. Cremating Sam McGee in an icy land is not an easy task. When he sees a timber boat nearby, however, the speaker notices that it has crashed and decides to make his move. This character trait also shows...

...﻿The cremation ground
BANG!!
BANG!!
BANG!!!
THUD.................THUD……..THUD……….THUD
WHAT??? OKAY YES GET THAT IT’S THERE
CHANGE FAST…. We are late
These words and noises were my morning alarm on the day of July 15th. I draggggggggggggg myself out of bed, open my bedroom door with a squeaking sound, poke my head out then look left and right. My mother runs past me, looks at me
Mother: Go back to bed, you don’t need to get up until 10 am….. I will call you, just be ready then
I then saw my aunt walk past me calmly moves forward to kiss my forehead.
I stop her to ask, can I come now
Aunty: Dear go to bed, I will come get you later when everyone is at the cremation ground
The CREMATION????? GROUND???????
Struck me there and then… It
Was the day
First time at a cremation ground
To witness my uncles body being burnt
I sat in bed impatiently
Waiting…..ing….ing….ing for my phone to RING...

...The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service is an incredible example of a narrative ballad. It tells it’s story through internal and external rhyming couplets
Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows.
Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows. (Service)
with a cadence which holds true through out the whole poem (Team, Shmoop Editorial). Service’s application of literary devices like alliteration enhances the flow of the poem; “roam 'round, cursèd cold, foul or fair, half hid, and brawn and brains” (Service).
The cold of the Arctic is a major theme and Service uses an assortment of other literary devices to convey his message (Team, Shmoop Editorial). He sets the tone with the oxymoron at the end of the first stanza; “midnight sun” (Service) where midnight speaks to cold and sun to warmth. Then again in the first quatrain he uses a metaphor to tell of how ones “blood runs cold” (Service) in the Arctic. Service employs juxtaposition in the second quatrain when he puts Sam’s home in warm Tennessee “where the cotton blooms and blows” (Service) beside his present residence of the Arctic where “He [is] was always cold” (Service). He utilizes a simile in such a manner that the reader can feel the relentless, penetrating cold “Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail” (Service). His use of personification “heavens scowled” (Service) and “I wrestled with grisly...